Final answer:
No, it is not possible to store -19 in a 5-bit storage.
Step-by-step explanation:
No, it is not possible to store -19 in a 5-bit storage. In 5 bits, we can represent numbers from 0 to 31. The leftmost bit is used to represent the sign of the number, with 0 indicating a positive number and 1 indicating a negative number. The remaining 4 bits represent the magnitude of the number. Since we need to represent -19, which is a negative number, in 5 bits, we would require the leftmost bit to be 1 and the rest of the bits to represent the magnitude of the number. However, in a 5-bit storage, we only have 4 bits available to represent the magnitude. Therefore, it is not possible to store -19 in a 5-bit storage.